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Rubrik

Score7.2 out of 10

236 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Rubrik?

Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and clouds.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Rubrik has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9.4

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 8.9

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8.5

  • Flexible deployment

    Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used

    Category average: 8.5

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Rubrik.
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Great product and improving with every release.

Incentivized
Burhan ShakilView profile
Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Harvard Law School (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is the primary backup product we use. It is currently used to backup our virtual infrastructure running on VMWare. Our backup is stored on Rubrik Briks and also archived to S3 Storage. Overall the product is rock solid with great features. Other than our primary backup solution this is also major part of our DR Recovery plan. In case of disaster we can restore our VMs to AWS using Rubrik Cluster on AWS.

Pros

  • Direct Live backup of VMs using Native snapshot technology
  • Cloud Integration for Archiving of Data
  • Instant restore of VM using live mount on Rubrik Flash Storage

Cons

  • 0 day local retention of VMs. It keeps atleast one copy of VM on local brik
  • No way to assign a specific encryption key for a specific VM
  • Some Disk Consolidation and Deduplication issues.

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI as primary DR Product
  • Negative Impact as our previous backup solutions supported Granular Backup of AD

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CommVault and Veeam Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

vSphere, Hyper-V, Splunk Enterprise

The ideal backup solution for VMware environments

John BottsView profile
System Administrator in Information Technology at TMC Transportation (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is used for our backup strategy, enabling DR, and also helps with our ransomware protection. We love how it is a suite that consolidates work to less panes of glass.

Pros

  • backups
  • ransomware protection

Cons

  • VM restoration speed for archived items
  • File restoration speed
  • Communication with updates

Return on Investment

  • It has reliable and easy automated backups

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Commvault Cloud Rewind

Easy 365 Backup service

George DialView profile
Chief Information Officer in Information Technology at The Neenan Company (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Rubrik seclusively for our 365 backups. We need an archive of current and formal users for OneDrive, Email and SharePoint/Teams.

Pros

  • Extremely easy deployment
  • Fast restores
  • Excellent Sales staff

Cons

  • I can't think of anything given our limited scope at this time

Return on Investment

  • Peace of mind that my Microsoft 365 data is safe
  • Minimizes the amount of time I have to spend thinking about backups

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HYCU

Rubrik is worth the price

David PoulinView profile
System administrator in Information Technology at Canam Group inc (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It help improve data security, improve backup facility We use it as day to day backup operation including delegating access to level 1 support using RBAC access type. We backup vmware, nutanix, sql, oracle, linux, ibm aix, windows, gcp and some NAS. We also like the NAS CD addon product of Rubrik we start using it soon

Pros

  • UI simplicity
  • Events logging
  • Support
  • API

Cons

  • Reports
  • Update
  • Add query language
  • Give access under the hood

Return on Investment

  • Cloud cluster is too expensive
  • RSC or CDM interface allow for delegation that help admins to do other stuff

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cohesity and Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Rubrik’s scalability makes growth easy.

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is being used across all of our organization. This addresses the need that we had for a scalable backup product that sits in our data center. We also wanted it to be able to tier to cloud. We appreciate the API’s and will be using that further in the future.

Pros

  • Scale out.
  • Modern.
  • Integration through API.

Cons

  • Young company.
  • The UI could use a bit more work.
  • Terminology needs to be simplified for end users.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to get rid of costly licenses.
  • We are able to be sure that all VMs are backed up.
  • This falls into line with our modern approach.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Other Software Used

Pure Storage FlashArray, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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